X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <456F9741.20405@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:45:21 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: autoconf References: <20061130220408 DOT GE19404 AT cox DOT net> <456F6D06 DOT 1050200 AT cygwin DOT com> <20061201002542 DOT GG19404 AT cox DOT net> In-Reply-To: <20061201002542.GG19404@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Bob Rossi wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:45:10PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> Bob Rossi wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using autoconf. I notice when I use things like >>> AC_CHECK_SIZEOF (int) >>> that the ac_cv_sizeof_int has the value of "4\r". >>> >>> There is an extra carriage return in there. I start my configure >>> script with >>> ./configure --build=mingw32 >>> could that be the problem? >>> >>> Is there any solution to having these macro's work correctly on cygwin? >>> or did I break it by using the --build option? BTW, I can't test it >>> without the --build option because the configure script doesn't even get >>> that far otherwise, since this is a mingw package (sort of). >> >> Sounds to me like the file you're feeding to autoconf has DOS line endings >> in >> it. > > Yes, this is correct. The AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro does not work with > -mno-cygwin unless there is a cygwin version of 'cat' on the path. > > Is there a standard way to resolve this problem? I'm not sure. I'm assuming not using '-mno-cygwin' is not an option? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/